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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] netlink: prepare validate extack setting for
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Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2018 21:09:49 +0200
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On Wed, 2018-09-19 at 16:08 -0300, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner wrote:
> 
> > If it fails and returns (nested and all) on the first failure it should
> > be fine. I was thinking something like this (whitespace damaged on paste):
> 
> This will avoid the situation that we were discussing in the older
> thread, btw.

I think it only avoids the part where we have to worry about "have I
already set this" - which is David's point AFAICT.

I'll reply over to your other email (as I already started writing a
reply there)

johannes